The Western Front Association's podcasts 'Mentioned in Dispatches' with Dr Tom Thorpe are an eclectic mix of relaxed discussions with all kinds of contributors: experts in their particular fields, authors, historians, performers, speakers, researches, museum archivists and curators which sometimes shine a light into areas of the first world war which are overlooked.
Ep.202 - General Sir Cecil Pereira - Dr Spencer Jones
Dr Spencer Jones, Senior Lecturer at the University of Wolverhampton, talks about the wartime let...
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Ep. 201 - Jan Smuts - Prof. Ian Van Der Waag and Tony Garcia
Professor Ian Van Der Waag, Professor and Head of Department of Military History at Stellenbosch...
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Ep.200 - Logistics during the Messines - Third Ypres Campaign - Rob Thom...
In this Mentioned in Dispatches podcast, historian Rob Thompson talks about what got him interest...
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Ep. 199 - New York’s Silkstocking Regiment and the Breaking of the Hinde...
American historian and author Stephen L. Harris talks about his book recent book Duty, Honor, Pri...
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Ep. 198 - Churchill and the Dardanelles - Prof. Chris Bell
Canadian historian Professor Christopher Bell, Professor of History at Dalhousie University in H...
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Ep. 197 - The 1918 German Revolution - Prof. Robert Gerwarth
Historian Professor Robert Gerwarth, Professor of Modern History at University College Dublin and...
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Ep. 196 - Men of the AEF's 'Lost Battalion' - Dr Edward Lengel
Historian and writer Professor Edward G Lengel talks about his book Never in Finer Company: The M...
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Ep. 195 - County Kildare - 1912-1923 - Dr Seamus Cullen
Historian Dr Seamus Cullen talks about his recent book Kildare, The Irish Revolution, 1912-1923,...
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Ep. 194 - Chemical Warfare - Simon Jones
Freelance historian Simon Jones about his research into chemical weapons during the Great War....
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Ep.193 - Belgian Refugees in Glasgow during the Great War - Kieran Taylor
PhD candidate Kieran Taylor, studying at the University of Stirling, talks about his research int...
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Ep.192 – ‘The Fighting Irish’ – The US 69th Infantry Regiment in WW1- St...
A student at Trinity College, Burlington, Vermont. Stephen L. Harris started his career as a jo...
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Ep. 191 - The German Occupation of France in the First World War – Dr Ja...
Dr James Connolly is the Associate Professor SELCS Faculty of Arts & Humanities, University C...
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